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-| alma_mater         = [[University of Wolverhampton]]
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-| occupation         = [[Solicitor]]
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-| birth_date       = 1987 or 1988
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-'''Akhmed Yakoob''' (born 1987 or 1988<ref name="Halliday">{{cite news |last1=Halliday |first1=Josh |title=Teenager's lawyer steps aside after Manchester airport 'assassination' remarks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/29/teenagers-lawyer-steps-aside-after-manchester-airport-assassination-remarks |work=The Guardian |date=29 July 2024}}</ref>) is a British criminal defence lawyer.
-== Lawyer ==
-Yakoob studied law at the [[University of Wolverhampton]] and graduated with a 2:2 [[British undergraduate degree classification|degree classification]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Dixon |first=Hayley |date=26 July 2024 |title=Lamborghini lawyer of Manchester 'victims' believes Allah chose him to 'challenge the Zionist regime' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07/26/akhmed-yakoob-lawyer-manchester-airport-police/ |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>
-Yakoob was admitted as a [[Solicitor#England and Wales|solicitor]] on 15 May 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Akhmed Yakoob |url=https://www.sra.org.uk/consumers/register/person/?sraNumber=541722 |website=[[Solicitors Regulation Authority]]| date=7 October 2019 }}</ref> He is a director of Maurice Andrews Solicitors, of Birmingham.<ref name="Halliday" />
-He is active on [[TikTok]], where he has 200,000 followers.<ref name="Halliday" />
-== Politics ==
-Yakoob ran as an independent candidate in the May [[2024 West Midlands mayoral election]], finishing third place with almost 70,000 votes.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lawson |first=Eleanor |date=6 May 2024 |title=Mayoral candidate to stand in general election |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pd91dg0go |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> During the campaign, he posted on social media the name and workplace of a Labour canvasser, whom he accused of using racial slurs in a video. Police concluded that the canvasser did not say anything racist.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cullinane |first1=Alice |last2=Mayor |first2=Rob |title=Election row teacher was not racist - police |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd13dz1pk6qo |access-date=31 July 2024 |work=BBC News |date=8 May 2024}}</ref> The [[Solicitors Regulation Authority]] opened an investigation into Yakoob's video.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Horner |first1=Nick |last2=Haynes |first2=Jane |title=Solicitors' regulator launches investigation into Akhmed Yakoob over 'false racism' claims |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/solicitors-regulator-launches-investigation-akhmed-29146238 |access-date=31 July 2024 |work=Birmingham Mail |date=10 May 2024}}</ref>
-At the July [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024 general election]], Yakoob stood as an independent candidate for the [[Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham Ladywood constituency]],<ref name=":0" /> finishing second with 12,137 votes.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Birmingham Ladywood - General election results 2024 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001096 |access-date=2024-07-28 |work=BBC News }}</ref> During the election campaign, it was revealed that he had said in a [[podcast]] that "70% of hell is going to be women", and had not condemned another guest who said he would give his wife a "backhander" if she made money dancing on TikTok. He subsequently issued an apology.<ref name="Halliday" />
-== References ==
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-[[Category:British solicitors]]
-[[Category:21st-century British politicians]]
-[[Category:Alumni of the University of Wolverhampton]]
-[[Category:1980s births]]
-[[Category:Living people]]